Words the Bible translates as nature
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- hupostasisὑπόστασιςthe real being or substance of something: what it actually is beneath how it appears
+2 more meanings
- a firm, settled confidence: assurance held onto without wavering
- an undertaking or venture being carried through: a concrete plan one has committed to
- phusisφύσιςwhat a person or thing is by birth or natural growth: one's native descent or inborn condition
+3 more meanings
- the regular, established order of things: the way the world, or a society, is ordinarily arranged
- the essential being of someone or something: what it truly and intrinsically is
- a kind or species: a class of living creatures
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